u/RandomBugg08

Maybe kinger isn't crazy when he's not in the darkness.

Theory 1: Maybe kinger is just grieving..and not healthily, maybe him loosing his wife, and other characters drove him to simply spiral, almost like we see caine do when he thinks the characters dislike his adventures. Maybe it's not just him grieving Queenie either maybe he it's his guilty conscious that helped drive him to "madness" it would make sense especially if you believe the theory that he helped create the circus or that he was a programmer or just a part of it in some way In general. It makes sense for him to spiral considering the only did he lose his wife but he also lost his wife do to a program he helped create, a program that also goes on to torture others as well. Maybe that has something to do with his calmness in the dark, because in one episode we find out that while Queenie is abstracting/abstracted she is calm in the dark. Maybe caine even gave kinger the idea, or simply put it in his head, to build a pillow fort for her,. somewhere in his madness deep down he remembered her calmness in the dark and that's how he figured the dark also calmed him. At one point it's believed he reached to touch abstracted Queenie in her last moments before caine sent her off..maybe that's why he has some characteristics such as the calmness in the dark but the craziness in the light.

Maybe Caine wasn't giving them a fake Exit adventure to fuck with them but because he was programmed to give them what they want, it's implied in an earlier episode that he may not know/understand how to let them leave, so instead he gives them a chance to live out their dream.to his best ability, maybe that's why in the end (some say he "mind controlled" Jax into hitting the button via forced/induced flashback) because is some weird/twisted way of thinking it was him letting their hopes down in a more gentle way than if they pressed the exit for nothing, at least this way the second the button was hit they knew they weren't leaving. Idk

I heard someone say that when gummygoo was leaving he gave a nod or look to pomni almost indicating he DOES remember her, I'm wondering if it's simply to protect their peace in hopes she forgets him, or maybe he pretends he doesn't remember for the same reason able pretends to be ignorant to caine in the beginning, especially with the fact caine says no NPCs allowed in the circus because ehe might lose track of who's real, maybe gummygoo is real but is playing an npc to stay off caine radar or at least pretending for now.

I wonder if in the show, whoever programmed the circus took inspiration of the concept of the circus being a digital world people can pop into and make friends, with randomized names and fun adventures to go on.

Maybe the reason Jac always making fun of Gangle isn't just because of the character stereotypes or because she's an easy target, maybe it's because her masks (as I talked about in another theory post) is a metaphor about her masking her true feelings. Maybe Jax makes fun of her because he realizes the metaphor he knows he also masks, so he projects it on to her making fun of her for being weepy and all the time because deep down he feels the same way but masks better. I believe in the beach episode we even get an example when he's talking to Google she says something about speaking about her problems and as he walks away he says something along the lines of good thing I have no problems. Maybe this isn't being snarky but maybe into surface level common referring to his masking. And some of the theory videos I've watched I heard that maybe he feels guilty for ribbits abstraction, maybe that's why he's so mean to everyone else maybe it's him putting on a tough exterior to keep people away, which is why he keeps trying to push pomni away. We even seen one episode that he has a picture of him kaufumo and ribbit on his wall, in a later episode we see a picture of him and pomni in the trash maybe symbolizing he is trying to cut ties to any human emotion that's do not feel the greif or guilt again.

So in one of the newest episodes we find out that the group not being able to remember their real names isn't an accident or coincidence but actually an intentional decision caine made. Maybe this isn't just because he's a sadistic asshole but actually an important decision. Maybe them figuring out their names has something to do with them escaping. Maybe caine doesn't let/make people abstract until they found out things he doesn't want them to know. The show starts with us finding out they don't intentionally enter the circus but yet randomly pop in without choice, or maybe they did have a choice but it got erased along with other information. Leaning on this there are multiple theories one of them being maybe they were given directions on how to leave/get out, maybe there were tempted, maybe they were told it was a game, maybe there were told they can leave whenever before entering, if so maybe their names are key details, because when you thin .of trying to help someone gain their memory you start with reminding them of their name, then their interests, then different things about their life's. I have many more theories, some of which contradict each other, but since we don't have a 100%, confirmed ending until episode 9 comes out I'll keep making my little theorie.